One variation of a method for assisting execution of manual protocols at production equipment includes: identifying a site occupied by a mobile device based on a geospatial location of a device; identifying a space within the building occupied by the device based on identifiers of a set of wireless access points wirelessly accessible to the device and known locations of wireless access points within the building; loading a protocol associated with an equipment unit in the space; calculating a position of the device within the space based on positions optical features, detected in a field of view of an optical sensor at the device, relative to reference features represented in a space model of the space; and, when the position of the device falls within a threshold distance of a reference location proximal the equipment unit defined in a step of the procedure, rendering guidance for the step.
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3. The method of claim 1, wherein flagging the current protocol record containing the deviation comprises, in response to identifying the threshold deviation between the first condition of the current protocol record and a previous condition, defining the target condition, of a previous instance of the first protocol, flagging the current protocol record containing the deviation.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein flagging the current protocol record containing the deviation comprises, at a remote computer system, in response to identifying a deviation between the first condition and a target condition defined in the first protocol, replaying a first segment of the current protocol record that spans the first step containing the deviation.
16. The method of claim 15, further comprising, in response to identifying a first deviation between the set of conditions of the current protocol record and a previous set of conditions of previous instances of the first protocol, replaying a first segment of the current protocol record containing the first deviation.
20. The method of claim 19, further comprising in response to identifying the deviation between the first condition and the target condition, replaying a first segment of a current protocol record containing the first step in the protocol.
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